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Abstract
In the twenty years since I collaborated with Victor and Julia Chambi in re-evaluating, reprinting, and exhibiting the photographic work of their father, Martín Chambi, considerable attention has been focused both on his archive and on the work of other Andean photographers of the early twentieth century.Footnote1 Important contributions to these studies have been made in Cusco by the Fototeca Andina, at the Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos, San Bartolomé de las Casas, and by the independent research of Adelma Benavente under the aegis of her private collection known as Instituto Audio Visual Inka. For every researcher, however, the major stumbling block to creating a definitive chronology for photography in Cusco between 1900 and 1950 remains the scarcity of reliable records for biographies of photographers and accurate dates and attributions of photographs. In an effort to help define new references for early twentiethcentury photography in Cusco, my own research over the past decade has focused on selected private and public photographic collections, as well as on publications that appeared between 1910 and 1940 in which pictures by early Cusco photographers are reproduced. Footnote2
Recent exhibitions presenting early twentieth-century Andean Photography include: Visions of Modernity: Photographs from the Peruvian Andes 1900–1913, Foto Fest, Houston 1992, organized by Fernando Castro, Edward Ranney, Peter Yenne, seen in the USA and Mexico through 1997; exhibit brochure, text by Fernando Castro, published by Americas Society, New York 1994; Fotografia Andina Historir4, 1875–1950, Banco Continental, Lima, 1993; exhibit and brochure organized by Fototeca Andina, Bartolome de las Casas, Cusco; El Mundo de Figueroa Aznar, fotografias, foto-oleos, pinturas, esculturas, 1878–1951, Casa Cabrera, Cusco, and Banco Continental, Lima 1994; exhibit and brochure by Adelma Benavente Garcia, Instituto Audio Visual Inka, Cusco; Peruvian Photography, Images .from the Southern Andes, 1900–1945, University of Essex, Colchester, and Canning House, London 1996, exhibit and brochure organized by Pauline Antrobus.
I am indebted to the Fulbright Commission, Lima, Peru, for the senior fellowship awarded during 1993–94 that sponsored both this research and my ongoing photographic documentation of pre-Hispanic archaeological sites along Peru's desert coast.
Recent exhibitions presenting early twentieth-century Andean Photography include: Visions of Modernity: Photographs from the Peruvian Andes 1900–1913, Foto Fest, Houston 1992, organized by Fernando Castro, Edward Ranney, Peter Yenne, seen in the USA and Mexico through 1997; exhibit brochure, text by Fernando Castro, published by Americas Society, New York 1994; Fotografia Andina Historir4, 1875–1950, Banco Continental, Lima, 1993; exhibit and brochure organized by Fototeca Andina, Bartolome de las Casas, Cusco; El Mundo de Figueroa Aznar, fotografias, foto-oleos, pinturas, esculturas, 1878–1951, Casa Cabrera, Cusco, and Banco Continental, Lima 1994; exhibit and brochure by Adelma Benavente Garcia, Instituto Audio Visual Inka, Cusco; Peruvian Photography, Images .from the Southern Andes, 1900–1945, University of Essex, Colchester, and Canning House, London 1996, exhibit and brochure organized by Pauline Antrobus.
I am indebted to the Fulbright Commission, Lima, Peru, for the senior fellowship awarded during 1993–94 that sponsored both this research and my ongoing photographic documentation of pre-Hispanic archaeological sites along Peru's desert coast.
Notes
Recent exhibitions presenting early twentieth-century Andean Photography include: Visions of Modernity: Photographs from the Peruvian Andes 1900–1913, Foto Fest, Houston 1992, organized by Fernando Castro, Edward Ranney, Peter Yenne, seen in the USA and Mexico through 1997; exhibit brochure, text by Fernando Castro, published by Americas Society, New York 1994; Fotografia Andina Historir4, 1875–1950, Banco Continental, Lima, 1993; exhibit and brochure organized by Fototeca Andina, Bartolome de las Casas, Cusco; El Mundo de Figueroa Aznar, fotografias, foto-oleos, pinturas, esculturas, 1878–1951, Casa Cabrera, Cusco, and Banco Continental, Lima 1994; exhibit and brochure by Adelma Benavente Garcia, Instituto Audio Visual Inka, Cusco; Peruvian Photography, Images .from the Southern Andes, 1900–1945, University of Essex, Colchester, and Canning House, London 1996, exhibit and brochure organized by Pauline Antrobus.
I am indebted to the Fulbright Commission, Lima, Peru, for the senior fellowship awarded during 1993–94 that sponsored both this research and my ongoing photographic documentation of pre-Hispanic archaeological sites along Peru's desert coast.